KANSAS CITY —A Kansas City man faces multiple felony charges for a fatal shooting on Monday morning along East U.S. 40 Highway, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Tyrell Young, 28, faces Murder 2nd Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon and two counts of Armed Criminal Action.
According to court records, Kansas City police officers were dispatched to a business in the 7300 block of East U.S. 40 Highway on a reported shooting Monday morning. They found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
Witnesses told police that Young had come to the automotive business at that location and was irate and threatening to kill a man. Young pulled a handgun at one point. Other witnesses identified Young as a man who had brought a Camaro to the auto business. Video surveillance showed Young arriving at the shop and asking the victim to get ahold of another man.
Young can be seen walking toward the victim as he talks about a music system missing from his vehicle. Young told the victim to call the man, lifts his shirt in front and seconds later a shot is heard. Young continued to shoot victim multiple times. A handgun is observed to fall from the defendant's pocket.
Young remains jailed on $200,000 cash bond.